| Author | Message | ||
     Fltwistygirl |
Saw this yesterday on the local (twin cities) weather station. Pretty powerful message. There is also one out there showing a teenage boy as texter. Embedded for ya.  (Message edited by blake on June 23, 2011) | ||
| 86129squids |
THANK GOD. MORE, PHLEEEEEEEEEZE. (i texted this at home, in front of the 'puter, one handed, whilst eating a sammich and some tayter salad.) | ||
| Just_ziptab |
I don't recall a single acquaintance that died from a gun accident of his/her own making. In the last few years,I personally know of several people that have died while texting or with a driver that was texting. How would you like to be the one that started the text message contact................or was on the receiving end when it went "dropped"? | ||
| Wolfridgerider |
while driving home yesterday... I found myself behind a small truck that had its right blinker on.... blink blink blink... for about a mile this went on... We start to approach a busy intersection and Mr. Right blink is still blinking away... Well... a car from the side street sees the right turn signal and pulls out in front of the blinkster. The blinky one puts his hand up in a WTF!!!?? motion... making nice gestures at the lawn care truck and trailer that just pulled out in front of him..... I've had enough of this so I change lanes and pull up next to him and YELL... YOUR TURN SIGNAL IS ON!! ... as I was yelling this... guess what I saw.... yep.. he was texting.... what a f#cktard | ||
| Fltwistygirl |
This is such a hot button for us as a society, but especially for us on two wheels. When I saw this it was a "hot damn they finally get it" moment. Plenty of issues in MN at the moment, lotsa finger pointing too. Hope they find the funds to keep running this add. Effective...no? | ||
| Swampy |
The Effin' IT Witch in the next cubicle is always texting, I can hear it now with my expensive hearing aids, that clickity, clickity, tickity, tickity tick tick. | ||
| Buellriderx |
If someone could embed it .. I don't know how. Sorry for the Russian title Embedded for ya. (Message edited by Blake on June 23, 2011) | ||
| Slaughter |
First time saying it here - my Mother was killed in a driving snowstorm at 10PM in January by a kid who was texting. He hit her doing almost 65. (interesting to note, the 17 year old had a camera in the car recording the whole accident - apparently in WI this camera thing is part of a way to reduce insurance rates... dunno, it's a new one on me) We're dealing with lawyers and anger. | ||
| Wolfridgerider |
new BMW ad I saw this morning... | ||
| Wolfridgerider |
Steve... that would be a very hard pill to swallow.... to lose a family member because someone was doing anything other than DRIVING the car would send me over the edge Very sorry for your loss | ||
| Xl1200r |
I wish the U.S. had the balls to run the more gory ads instead of the cute "dead woman texting" bullshit - so easy to tune that out. | ||
| Fltwistygirl |
Steve- Sorry for your family's loss. "I wish the U.S. had the balls to run the more gory ads instead of the cute "dead woman texting" bullshit - so easy to tune that out". I think the "what's left to the imagination" style commercial is effective for many people. If an ad is too gory or too creepy, I'll just change the station. | ||
| Xl1200r |
Than at least something with some emotional pull. There's none in that dead woman texting bit. There's some in the BMW ad. | ||
| Blake |
That BMW commercial is excellent. So sorry about your mom's tragic passing Steve. Judging solely by the son she raised --I don't know a better gauge of measure--she was a very rare and wonderful person. | ||
| Jwblue |
Kaitlyn Dunaway, 18, of Rohnert Park, California, killed a 2-year-old girl and injured her mother in a Rohnert Park crosswalk while sending a text message on her phone. She was convicted of misdemeanor vehicular manslaughter, which in California carries a one-year maximum imprisonment, not even enough time to get sent to a state prison (California requires a sentence of 1 yr + 1 day to get sent to a state prison, IIRC). Drinking and driving was once considered a harmless mistake, no big deal, everybody does it, etc. Perhaps we need a 'Mothers against Drunk Driving' type of organization to address texting. | ||
| Fresnobuell |
Drinking and driving was once considered a harmless mistake, no big deal, everybody does it, etc. Perhaps we need a 'Mothers against Drunk Driving' type of organization to address texting. Legalize talking on the phone and you will see the texting problem diminish. that being said these kids today prefer to text rather than talk on the phone, so obviously it would not cure the problem completely. I do know this--the texting problem became an issue only AFTER they banned talking on the phone while driving. Teenage, texting drivers are easily as dangerous as a drunk driver... | ||
| Wolfridgerider |
you are as likely to get in a accident talking on the phone as if you had few drinks... | ||
| Fresnobuell |
you are as likely to get in a accident talking on the phone as if you had few drinks... Maybe having a few drinks isn't as bad as we think then.. | ||
| Pkforbes87 |
Couple weeks ago I was riding behind a car in my neighborhood that was 10 mph under the 25mph speed limit, weaving, etc. At a stop sign, I noticed that the driver was texting so I pulled up beside the passenger window, knocked on it, and asked if he was going to continue texting or drive his *^%&ing car. He promptly set his phone down in the passenger seat and said he'd drive. | ||
| Sifo |
Here's what they should use for a commercial. Nothing fake about it. EDIT: Not very work safe because of language. Turn off sound and it's work safe. (Message edited by SIFO on June 23, 2011) | ||
| Whisperstealth |
Don't think I would have follow that close behind! | ||
| Steeleagle |
Autoweek magazine had an editorial a few years ago on the topic and the editor said if he had the choice of driving on a highway full of drunks or a highway full of texting drivers he'd take the drunks: "At least they're TRYING to drive." Neither one actually a good option, but I thought it was a good observation! | ||
| Jwblue |
Legalize talking on the phone and you will see the texting problem diminish. that being said these kids today prefer to text rather than talk on the phone, so obviously it would not cure the problem completely. I do know this--the texting problem became an issue only AFTER they banned talking on the phone while driving. In California talking on a hands-free phone while driving is legal and text messaging while driving is illegal. | ||
| Mr_grumpy |
There is a very simple solution to this problem & the technology exists to do it on any OBD2 compliant vehicle. All it needs is a low power signal scrambler that activates automatically when the vehicle starts moving. You want to talk or text from your car, you have to stop. In California talking on a hands-free phone while driving is legal and text messaging while driving is illegal. That's the case throughout Europe too. Steve I feel your pain, I lost my Mum 2 days before Christmas '99, she pulled out in front of an MPV that had forgotten to cancel their turn signal. It's senseless I know. To all of you, keep your eyes open & moving all the time, whatever you're driving. Use whatever is available to spot hazards, reflections in shop windows or even shadows can make all the difference. I hate sounding like some preachy bastard with a bee in his bonnet so I'll cut it short. The road is my workplace as well as my playground, & as I've posted elsewhere the difference between living & dying is the blink of an eye. Ride safe & be lucky. | ||
| Kyrocket |
It's hard to moan through a keyboard. Uhhhhhh or Ohhhhh or whatever but that blank dead baby stare will haunt me for a week. Here in Ky. it's legal to talk but illegal to text. Just last weekend my wife told me I was going to get us shot because I told a blonde teeny bopper at a light who was texting that that sh*t was illegal. I thought "really" you think miss thing is packing heat with her blinged out smart phone. I have to admit too that I pulled out in front of a bike a couple weeks ago. Had his blinker on and was going slow enough the make the turn so I pulled out. I got the raised arm WTH gesture but as soon as he looked down the signal went off. I think he figured out why I did it. I feel for the LEO's whose job it is to enforce it. My office has a 2nd story window looking out over the street and it's amazing to me how many people I see driving by texting, even saw someone on a bike texting last week. I can say I've never texted while driving (heck barely do it anyway) and I rarely talk while in the car, just too much to go wrong too quickly. If someone is in the car with me I just let them take care of it if at all. | ||
| Blake |
Vlingo | ||
| Froggy |
Problem is how would the car know if the driver or passenger is using the call? It can't. Passenger can't use a tablet to look up a nearby hotel and book a room, or check his Facebook and email. Next issue is technology, you would need multiband jammers to block both CDMA and GSM radios, then that is only so good as new technologies like LTE and WiMax use different frequencies and wouldn't be affected. Then you have to hope nobody driving by is close enough to jam you when you are using it. What if it was some kind of emergency and you needed to contact the police while driving? Some crazy drunk swerving and putting people at risk? You wouldn't be able to do diddly squat. Oh, and I could bypass any of it in about 30 seconds anyway. | ||
| Drkside79 |
Honestly i have no problem with talking on the phone and driving. Look at most people they almost never have both their hands on the wheel let alone at ten and two or wherever the wheel should be held this decade. Also most new phones have talk to text in them nowadays. so there's no way one needs to be texting while driving. | ||
| Kyrocket |
May be something different but can we even get them here? Reason I ask is our youth pastor, a good friend of mine, at our church tried to get a small area (50 yd. reach I believe)cell phone jammer for our new youth facility for those hard to pay attention times. Something he could turn on and off. Bought one off of e-bay from Singapore or Hong Kong and was notified by Homeland Security when it reached customs that he was not allowed to have it and they would be keeping it. | ||
| Drkside79 |
>>>>>was notified by Homeland Security when it reached customs that he was not allowed to have it and they would be keeping it. In this day an age that device can be used for more evil than good. I don't wan't a third party to have the ability to block my cell. |
